--- title: "The Will-o'-the-Wisp is in town," said the man. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "The Will-o'-the-Wisp is in town," said the man. " Who acts: Wisp, town. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/221/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Sa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/) / 221 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 221 "The Will-o'-the-Wisp is in town," said the man. " **Who acts:** Wisp, town · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** town, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wisp, town), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:211:221 # text = "The Will-o'-the-Wisp is in town," said the man. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 3 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Wisp wisp NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Wisp | | | town | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | town | the man | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/220/) - next →: [sentence 222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/222/) - ↑ back to [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/)